Pairs of tiles which admit finitely or countably infinitely many tilings (Q1071318)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3940139
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| English | Pairs of tiles which admit finitely or countably infinitely many tilings |
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3940139 |
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Pairs of tiles which admit finitely or countably infinitely many tilings (English)
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1986
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Let \({\mathcal P}\) be a set of prototiles, i.e. a finite set of tiles. If a tiling exists such that every tile of it is congruent to a prototile from \({\mathcal P}\), we say that \({\mathcal P}\) admits a tiling. It is proved that for every \(k\geq 2\) and \(r\geq 1\) there exists a set of k prototiles which admits exactly r distinct tilings. The author works with the case of 2 prototiles and later easy derives the solution for every \(k>2\). It is also shown that there exist pairs of prototiles which admit countable infinity of different tilings.
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